Caribbean
Destination: Jamaica Movie: How Stella Got Her Groove Back I missed reading the book (1996), when it first came out and was a sensation of chick lit. And I never got around to seeing the movie version (1998). Recently I was invited on a press tour of Jamaica, and decided to Netflix (Netflick?) the DVD [...]
PDF Destination: Barbados Book: The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados by Winfred Peppinck A MONTHLY GUEST POST by JESSIE VOIGTS of WANDERING EDUCATORS Print PDF
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Destination: The Caribbean Book: A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean: A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Any Place it’s Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen, by Gary Buslik A Guest Post by Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators I am happy to share with you today a book that just made [...]
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Destination: The Caribbean Book: The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul Quotable Thursday quote: I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul The question is, if a man writes well, does it matter what kind of human being he is? I delayed reading V. S. Naipaul because although [...]
Several weeks ago, Dr. Jessie Voight, from Wandering Educators, interviewed me. She asked, among other things, “Can we ever read enough to get to know a place? Even if we’ve been there?” She also asked about some of my favorite books about different cultures. And she borrowed some of the photographs I have taken on [...]
Destination: Dominican Republic Book: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz I mentioned a Don’t Even Go There Book in a previous post. That book actually scores high as one of the best books I have read in a long time. But by Junot Diaz does not inspire travel–although it definitely does [...]
